After a five day strike and nearly six months of negotiations with the hospital, Meriter nurses returned to work yesterday morning under a new two-year contract.

Image courtesy: Greg Geboski / Labor Radio.

This week on “Madison Mixology,” feature Contributor Charlie Belawski teaches us about the Whiskey Sour, the base and inspiration for a number of cocktails both new and classic.

World View guests, Dr. Howard Ehrman, Neil Resnikoff and Jordan Muhammad from the Chicago area group, Levántate por Cuba, were part of the May Day Brigade that traveled to Eastern Cuba this spring.

Levántate por Cuba translates as “Stand Up for Cuba.” Its leaders collaborated with Cuban and US contacts to plan and carry out a meaningful visit to the area around Santiago de Cuba on the eastern side of the island.

They wanted to make contact with Cubans and see Cuban life for themselves and they appear to have been successful. Their accounts of the visit were enthusiastic and delightful. They spoke of visits to a wide variety of institutions and groups and individual people in rural and urban settings. They were even included in the May Day Parade in Santiago.

The goal of the group is to break the blockade on Cuba, to unite with all people struggling for freedom and peace and to explore the eastern part of Cuba.

A few links:

Levántate por Cuba http://www.instagram.com/levantateporcuba/

National Network on Cuba http://nnoc.org/

NNOC on Facebook www.facebook.com/NationalNetworkonCuba/

Photos from Universidad Oriente https://www.uo.edu.cu/visita-la-brigada-estadounidense-levantate-por-cuba-nuestra-universidad-para-un-encuentro-con-miembros-de-la-comunidad-estudiantil/

Do you have an old racist, discriminatory restrictive covenant recorded on the deed to your house? Dane County Historical Society Executive Director Rick Bernstein and Dane County Planner Bridgit Van Belleghem join us to let you know how to find out and what you can do about it.

The Wisconsin State Legislature continues to meddle with the state’s election laws, and small communities are having a hard time finding municipal clerks to run the whole election show. Votebeat Wisconsin’s Alex Shur joins us with more.

This week on “Madison Mixology,” feature contributor Charlie Belawski takes us to San Francisco to learn about the Lemon Drop.

We’ll learn about how to craft this cocktail – and find out more about “Fern Bars.”

David Fields, US-South Korean relations scholar and Associate Director of the UW-Madison Center for East Asian Studies joined Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal to discuss South Korean elections.

South Koreans polls open across the country at 6:00 AM Tuesday, June 2, 2025 although more than a quarter of registered voters voted early in the preceding week.

This is no usual election. It was called after conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached after he declared martial law in December.

Although there are 6 candidates for president, one of the two candidates from Korea’s main parties, the governing conservative party and the main opposition liberal party, is expected to win. But, as Dr. Fields explains, liberal and conservative in South Korea don't mean the same thing as they do in the US. This interview is worth the listen for Fields' explanation.

Candidate Lee Jae-myung of the liberal party has been leading in the polls over his conservative party rival, Kim Moon-soo. Notably, Lee led in overturning the declaration of martial law and eventually impeaching Yoon. His rival, Kim, served as Yoon's labor minister, opposed the former president's impeachment and resisted calls to cut ties with him.

As David Fields says, “Anything can happen” and we hope to invite him back to discuss the results of the election and the future of South Korea.

In Wisconsin we don’t have a shortage of beavers, despite over hunting and over trapping in the nineteenth century. But their resurgence isn’t without friction, especially as development encroaches on their environments. On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by journalist Bennet Goldstein whose recent reporting covers the ways that people are living with beavers and learning how to mitigate floods and drought from them.

Featured image of a beaver in the Wisconsin Mammals exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum in Milwaukee via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forecast from Monday, 6-2-25 by WORT 89.9FM Madison

This Thursday, June 5th, is the 91st birthday of Bill Moyer. Raised during the Great Depression, he is still a strong advocate for progressive causes and general decency. Harry Richardson has the story.

Image: President Johnson (right) meets with special assistant Moyers in the White House Oval Office, 1963. Source: LBJ Library website via Wikipedia